All that is solid melts into air

Originally posted by Acemaster
A way to tell if somebody who blew up a bus was a Christian: if they blew it up, they aren't! Did you ever think that the reason you rarely here about is because it rarely happens? I'd bet your life on it that if it ever happend, it would be on the news. The news is against Christianity, you know.

So US soldiers are all atheist? Interesting! What about the members of the government that gives the orders ? And what about the voters?

Originally posted by twhitehead
So US soldiers are all atheist? Interesting! What about the members of the government that gives the orders ? And what about the voters?

Sorry! I didn't make myself clear. Someone who gets on a bus to intentionally blow up innocent people isn't a Christian, and I never said athiest. If you think our troops do that, you're a sick person.

Originally posted by Acemaster
A way to tell if somebody who blew up a bus was a Christian: if they blew it up, they aren't! Did you ever think that the reason you rarely here about is because it rarely happens? I'd bet your life on it that if it ever happend, it would be on the news. The news is against Christianity, you know.

Tell that to the dead people on the busses in Northern Ireland.

Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Much like Nietzsche's statement that 'god is dead', Marx's statement that 'All that is solid melts into air' was stating the demise of religion due to modernity. Now if the god of modernity is dead is there now a post-modern god?

Very nice quote from Marx, Vlad (from Manifesto, I suppose?) It depicts the rise of capitalism and the end of harmonic, static social structure of feodalism.

The question is hard to answer because 'modernity' and 'post-modernity' are difficult concepts. But, as everyone can notice for example by reading the debate on this thread, God seems to live on in the social imagination. It is no wonder because He is useful to the good old Capitalism. Put these gyus together and you can justify all kinds of acts to gain profit. Post-modern god: ideology?